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Only 10 more? I envy you, i really do.

That was just a random number. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) But in general, these people act in groups. Also, this is commonplace just in the center of the city, where there are few places to park, and close to places where major events are taking place.

And with saturday, they mean last saturday. So yeah, i envy you. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

From what I read now on a website, it was "just" an incident between a bunch of thugs against good citizens and the police. Indeed the number of people involved was high. Here the problem is not the quantity, but the "lack of quality" of those involved (bad guys and carrying weapons; that's why more than 65,000 people are killed by firearms every year here (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ).

And that was just a random incident from last weekend. And what you called "thugs" and most news articles call "young people" "youngster" or even just "man" are allways the same people. North africans, arabs or turks. And yes, they dont kill people that often, but heay, give them time to adjust to their increasing numbers, i mean they are allready good at establishing gang rapes as a common crime here.

And lets us be completly honest, would you really say that, even when they didnt killed or injured someone in this case, that this means it is a good thing? A good development? A sign that people can actually still feel save in public space?

Because i can tell you without any shame, uncle knows how to defend himself, uncle knows how to fight and uncle knows how to take a beating. But against those guys? Uncle would have shit his pants, because no matter how big, how good at fighting and how strong you are, against 400, you are nothing but a potential victim. It gets worse every year, so i have no doubts in a few years such a story will end with a few germans death and absolutly no witnesses in a swimming bath full of people. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

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I understand what you said. Well, obviously I did not mean it to be any good. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) Only that is something better than here (of course that both are bad). Sorry if I did not convey the message properly. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

We have gone through something similar (several years ago), but not with immigrants from other countries, but with migrants within the country (thousands have left the poorer regions to more prosperous places). The problems with immigrants are more recent as well, but the number of incidents is not so great in the face of the huge number of police incidents daily.

No, is okay. I guess i also shouldnt ignore the fact, that in a loot of countries everything is even worse. It is just, germany was used to be a country, were you actually could feel save, i still remember stories about people using the birthhouse of my grandmother as a shortcut because no one did close his doors back in this days and people could save a few minutes on their way to the backery. And when they actually had enough of it and did lock their doors, people did complain about such unfriendly behavior. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) True story.

Today something like would just been unthinkable. Today you cant even let your garden furniture in your own fenced graden over night, because you have to fear someone would steal them. That and other things may be just a small inconvenience compared to 65k shot people every year, i admit that, but it got much worse here as it used to be and i can see us reach even higher numbers some day, we are on the right way for that. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

No, is okay. I guess i also shouldnt ignore the fact, that in a loot of countries everything is even worse. It is just, germany was used to be a country, were you actually could feel save, i still remember stories about people using the birthhouse of my grandmother as a shortcut because no one did close his doors back in this days and people could save a few minutes on their way to the backery. And when they actually had enough of it and did lock their doors, people did complain about such unfriendly behavior. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) True story.

Today something like would just been unthinkable. Today you cant even let your garden furniture in your own fenced graden over night, because you have to fear someone would steal them. That and other things may be just a small inconvenience compared to 65k shot people every year, i admit that, but it got much worse here as it used to be and i can see us reach even higher numbers some day, we are on the right way for that. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

You guys talking about the parking lot admission fee charged by the homeless?
Yep.... that's what we call it out here. The parking lot admission fee.
We have an offsite warehouse that homeless will crash a glass in the front, walk by things worth 10's of thousands of dollars, and steal 30 feet of copper wire.
We replace glass continuously, and keep small quantities of really thick 1/0 copper wire as bait to keep them away from expensive things.
We place the wiring in the same place so they know where to go in the dark.
Edit: We do not own the warehouse building, and the landlord won't let us install cameras, or an alarm.

We also have homeless at every interstate exit charging us a highway exit fee.

What ticks me off is when their cardboard signs are written in Spanish instead of English.

This post has been edited by RoadShoe: Jul 2 2019, 02:53

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You guys talking about the parking lot admission fee charged by the homeless?

Well, that at least was with what it startet

small quantities of really thick 1/0 copper wire as bait to keep them away from expensive things.

Hm, i am not sure, the thickest cable i ever worked with was the power supply cables for a electrical enclosure room for a complete steelwork and those were 40mm² single core. I tell you, it was a real nightmare to bend those beasts and cutting one of them was like using a car lifter. Btw i still wonder what idiot did design that steelwork, because it was not possible to drive the whole stuff even near the damned room with a forklift truck, so we had to carry everything by hand. Boy was i happy when that work was finished. Whatever, that is what i would call really thick copper wire, but i have no idea what 1/0 copper wire is suppose to be. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

What ticks me off is when their cardboard signs are written in Spanish instead of English.

Yeah? Why? De jure the US dont even have a official language. Something that does actually confuse me more as swiss who doesnt even have a capital.

Hey everyone, formerly user Analogdoujin so I decided to sacrifice myself to the shrine and as of today I am no longer a "poor player" aka I bought gold star! And man, I'm already feeling all the perks rushing through, can't even keep up now that I have 36 monster slots and the exp gain boost is incredible...already gained 2 levels (339 -> 341) so far after playing a few arenas and doing a RE. Oh and the extra million+ in credits is nice to have too though I'll be burning that quick.

Anyway, guess I can't really say I'm a struggling poor player anymore. Also I would like to thank everyone who has given me help and advice and stuff along the way too <3

P.S. I really wanted to have the yearly name change perk so that was really the main motivator for gold star...

GRATS ! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

I suppose a GS is a big motivation to keep on playing, too. Isn't it ? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Well, that at least was with what it startet
Hm, i am not sure, the thickest cable i ever worked with was the power supply cables for a electrical enclosure room for a complete steelwork and those were 40mm² single core. I tell you, it was a real nightmare to bend those beasts and cutting one of them was like using a car lifter. Btw i still wonder what idiot did design that steelwork, because it was not possible to drive the whole stuff even near the damned room with a forklift truck, so we had to carry everything by hand. Boy was i happy when that work was finished. Whatever, that is what i would call really thick copper wire, but i have no idea what 1/0 copper wire is suppose to be. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
Yeah? Why? De jure the US dont even have a official language. Something that does actually confuse me more as swiss who doesnt even have a capital.

I had no idea what 1/0 was in cross sectional area either. It's 53.2mm squared so nearly the same.
But we don't keep it in lengths like you're talking. Just small loops so they think they've hit the lottery.

And true that, U.S. has no official language. Cuban refugees tried to sneak a proposition in Florida to make it Spanish.
It's been a long while back. LOL... it almost passed.

I had no idea what 1/0 was in cross sectional area either. It's 53.2mm squared so nearly the same.
But we don't keep it in lengths like you're talking. Just small loops so they think they've hit the lottery.

Well, it doesnt need that much of such heavy cable, i mean i still have 30cm of somewhere - i keept it as a souvenir- and i actually could use it as a club, well not as a good one of course, the balance is just terrible, but it is hard and heavy enough, so i am sure it would allready be enough for a warm meal. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif) But i wonder, here most people who steal metal sell it somewhere in east europe, because here you have to prove that you didnt steal the metal, so i guess you do it like in east europe when someone comes with valuable you just give them the money. But hey, i hope you at least have some geiger counters at your scrap places. I mean that would be the absolute lest, right? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Ahhh, people stealing copper wires. There are everywhere.
And copper isn't even that valuable after all.
But they steal it anyway.
And I see constant articles in the news of people getting electrocuted and sometimes dying when they try to steal the wires of some railroad exchange...usually in a place where people always have been stealing wires, and dying as well. But that doesn't seem to stop them.

And copper isn't even that valuable after all.

If we ignore the complete stupid boner of humanity for gold, copper is much more usefull. I can only think of a few actual usages for gold, but i cant even imagen our world today without copper, it would just not be possible and dont give me "but before the war house wiring was made of aluminum with isolation made of cloth" because i know that better than you, i have seen house wiring that still haunts me to this day. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/anime_cry.gif) Because even if we ignore the cloth isolation, aluminum is just so fragile, those cables i have seen, i cant even imagen to install a single metre without producing at least five fractures. How people actually could use electricity with such wiring without having a cable brand once per week will stay forver a riddle to me. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) I guess people were just really lucky with those cable and because they used all their available luck for the wiring two World Wars had to happen to compensate that. See? Millions death only because they used cable made of aluminum, so dont you dare call copper not valuable, because it did prevent world wars since 1945. I rest my case. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

If we ignore the complete stupid boner of humanity for gold, copper is much more usefull. I can only think of a few actual usages for gold, but i cant even imagen our world today without copper, it would just not be possible and dont give me "but before the war house wiring was made of aluminum with isolation made of cloth" because i know that better than you, i have seen house wiring that still haunts me to this day. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/anime_cry.gif) Because even if we ignore the cloth isolation, aluminum is just so fragile, those cables i have seen, i cant even imagen to install a single metre without producing at least five fractures. How people actually could use electricity with such wiring without having a cable brand once per week will stay forver a riddle to me. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) I guess people were just really lucky with those cable and because they used all their available luck for the wiring two World Wars had to happen to compensate that. See? Millions death only because they used cable made of aluminum, so dont you dare call copper not valuable, because it did prevent world wars since 1945. I rest my case. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

When I say valuable I mean how many €/kg.
I never doubted its usefulness or the fact it's the best electrical conductor in a matter of quality/price.

And the world wars, dont forget about the world wars. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

And the world wars, dont forget about the world wars. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

We will have a 3rd before the next 30 years have passed, quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

And it will start from German again, too, quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

The end, however ... will not be anything like the last two times; much,much worse quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

And it will start from German again, too, quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

That is not only racist, it is also quite unlikely

The end, however ... will not be anything like the last two times; much,much worse quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

End worse? I could now list just a few of the things that happends to germans after the war, but because i am sure no one would give a fuck anyway, so i wont and just say a war can not end much worse for a country.

That is not only racist
...

Do you want me to moderate here?

Ahhh, people stealing copper wires. There are everywhere.
And copper isn't even that valuable after all.
But they steal it anyway.
And I see constant articles in the news of people getting electrocuted and sometimes dying when they try to steal the wires of some railroad exchange...usually in a place where people always have been stealing wires, and dying as well. But that doesn't seem to stop them.

It's more like a disease that thiefs have: they want to steal everything, valuable or not.
We have coppers thiefs here too, but they also steal things like hoses, coupling covers, or pretty much anything that can be taken easily.

I suppose they're borrwing all this stuff until they die, da-ze da-ze.

We will have a 3rd before the next 30 years have passed

What are you talking about? It's been at least 30 years that we have a 3rd.
The only difference is that we're doing it in someone else's country instead in our own.
In a way we learned from a country that did it already for the first two (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

And it will start from German again, too, quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

That is not only racist, it is also quite unlikely

No, it's not. It is just my considerate opinion, that the most probable place of the planet for it not to begin, but more importantly to catch hold and spread, will be probably there. It has nothing to do with germans as individuals.

The end, however ... will not be anything like the last two times; much,much worse quite probably (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

End worse? I could now list just a few of the things that happened to germans after the war, but because i am sure no one would give a fuck anyway, so i wont and just say a war can not end much worse for a country.

When I say "end worse", I mean globally. The whole human species. Germans or Europeans, they are just a relatively little percentage of the total. They will be a corrisponding percentage of sufferance, destruction and doom.

A bit more or a bit less, but still mostly insignificant. Like almost everyone else.

We will have a 3rd before the next 30 years have passed

What are you talking about? It's been at least 30 years that we have a 3rd.
The only difference is that we're doing it in someone else's country instead in our own.
In a way we learned from a country that did it already for the first two (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

Now this is an interesting consideration (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Keeping it confined elsewhere is proving to be increasingly difficult, however.
The more so, when it will be fought with robots and viruses.

This post has been edited by mundomuñeca: Jul 4 2019, 13:25